Who owns the moon? Space travel is getting easier and cheaper and now companies and NASA are trying to establish a market for things from outer space.
The laws around buying extraterrestrial land or resources are pretty nebulous, and for a long time this was a moot point. Almost nobody went to space, much less did business there. And that's changing.
SpaceX Is Launching Supplies To Study The Health Effects Of Space Travel
Elon Musk's ambitious goal with SpaceX is to eventually make humanity a multiplanetary species.
With a vast dossier of successful flights and completed missions that has provided confidence that scalable space travel is indeed plausibly achievable, SpaceX in conjunction with NASA is transitioning to the next step: understanding the human element of long-term space travel, potentially to
KUOW - 'How down are you' with space travel?
Okereke is a University of Washington graduate who — like any number of children who have looked up at the stars and dreamed of floating among them — wanted to be an astronaut as a child.
A few months ago, he came as close as so-called "citizen astronauts" get these days — at least, as close as citizen astronauts who aren't billionaires get.
She hopes to change what people think an astronaut looks like - The Washington Post
That question sits at the top of the Instagram page that Lisa Alcindor, an aspiring astronaut, created.
Is it a man or a woman? Is it someone who is tall or short? It is a person who seems more comfortable sitting in a lab or dancing at a party?
Whatever image a person conjures, it probably doesn't match the one that a quick downward scroll of the page reveals. The photos of Alcindor show a young, striking Black woman whose long lashes reach toward the front of that helmet when she has it on.
Elon Musk mocks Jeff Bezos amid legal battle over space plans
Elon Musk mocked Jeff Bezos on Twitter Friday, accusing him of having stepped down as Amazon CEO in order to spend his time filing lawsuits against Musk's company SpaceX.
The jab comes after Bezos' Blue Origin space firm sued NASA earlier this month over the agency's decision to give a $2.9 billion moon lander contract to SpaceX .
No space exploration without cleanrooms: What makes them so special?
The success of newcomer companies such as SpaceX shows one thing above all: there is a spirit of optimism in commercial space travel and there is one sector that will benefit from the growth of the aerospace market: cleanroom technology.
Not only private companies, but also state space agencies have set themselves ambitious goals. According to forecasts by management consultants, the global market for space technology will increase tenfold in the next 20 years to 2,700 billion euros (2040).
Space Travel: What It Takes for a Safe Journey to Mars
Staying in space for months or years has its consequences: muscle dwindles, radiation damages cells and Weightlessness should hit the brain . This is the long journey to Mars Not good conditions .
The journey to Mars takes about nine months: it takes about a year and a half there and back. If one considers a research stay of several months on our neighbour, the expedition must still be below the time limit that Shprits and Co calculated for a relatively safe voyage.
LA County Girl Scouts’ projects are ready to soar to space station aboard SpaceX rocket
There was a time when females didn't go into space. That, of course, has changed and today, there are young girls out there with dreams of doing just that.
Indiana and four other Southern California scouts were among the winners of the inaugural "Making Space for Girls" contest sponsored by the Girl Scouts of Citrus Council in Florida, the nonprofit SpaceKids Global and Houston-based ProXops and L2 Aerospace.
Space-Themed Places to Stay | Mental Floss
Fortunately, you can still make travel plans to see the stars thanks to these space-themed accommodations with prices that are very down to Earth.
If you're curious to know what it felt like to experience space in the cramped Apollo 11 vehicle that got us to the moon, look no further than this Airbnb lodging out of New Zealand.
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